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With his Theatrum Machinarium, the Saxon engineer Jacob Leupold wrote an epoch-making textbook series about all kinds of useful machines. Our volume is dedicated to the “Heb-Zeugen” – devices that can be used to lift heavy loads.

There was no connection between the South Sea Company and our South Sea whatsoever. The company’s objective was to shoulder national debt and generate as much profit as possible. The fact that it’s still considered the prime example of a financial bubble today is due to a deadly sin, greed.

Sports Personality of the Year, the Oscars, weekly charts – rarely a domain can do without those popular rankings. They date back to the era of Enlightenment. In 1748, David Herrliberger presented the most important Swiss personalities. Do we still know them today?

Humanists did not have Facebook to maintain their international contacts. They were not in need of “likes” to show someone’s popularity. But they also had their methods...

The French novelist Victor Hugo once wanted to write a biography of Shakespeare. He ended up writing about the great geniuses of literature in general. Among them: Aeschylus, Shakespeare and – himself.